1. Samar Badawi filed a Grievances Board lawsuit against the Ministry of Municipal and Rural affairs for the rejection of her registration for the 2011 municipal elections.
15 Facts About Samar Badawi
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On 8 March 2012, Samar Badawi was given an award by the United States Department of State for her contributions to women's rights.
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Samar Badawi's father filed another disobedience charge against her in 2009.
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In mid-October 2010, the disobedience case against Samar Badawi remained open, and Samar Badawi's father filed an appeal against the result of the adhl case.
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On 25 October 2010, Samar Badawi was released from prison on the orders of Governor Khalid bin Faisal.
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In September 2014, Samar Badawi attended a discussion session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, in which she talked about the situation of Human Rights advocates in Saudi Arabia.
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Samar Badawi filed a lawsuit in the Grievances Board, a non-Sharia court, against the Ministry of Municipal and Rural affairs, because of the refusal of voter registration centres to register her for the September 2011 Saudi Arabian municipal elections, claiming that there was no law banning women as voters or candidates and that the refusal was illegal.
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Since the main campaign event in June 2011, Samar Badawi drove in Jeddah "every two or three days".
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On 4 February, following Manal al-Sharif's November 2011 filing of charges in the Eastern Province Grievances Board against the General Directorate of Traffic for the rejection of her application for a driver's licences, Samar Badawi filed similar charges for the rejection of her own application for a driving licence.
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On 8 March 2012, Samar Badawi was awarded the 2012 International Women of Courage Award by the United States Department of State for her filing of the adhl and voting rights lawsuits, which were seen by the Department of State as pioneering, and for her encouragement of and inspiration to other women.
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On 16 September 2014, Samar Badawi attended a discussion session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, on behalf of the organization Americans for Democracy and human rights in Bahrain and the Bahrain Institute of Rights and Democracy and Human Rights Watch in Saudi Arabia.
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On 18 September 2014, while at the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Samar Badawi met with the High Commissioner of Human Rights, Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad.
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On 20 September 2014, Samar Badawi flew to the US, where she met US Senators and secretaries of several human rights organizations to discuss the issue of her husband Waleed Abulkhair and other detainees.
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On 2 December 2014, Samar Badawi went to King Abdulaziz International Airport, to leave Saudi Arabia for a flight to Brussels, Belgium, to participate in the 16th European Union NGOs Forum on Human Rights.
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On 27 June 2021, Samar Badawi was released from prison after serving her sentence.